I can remember one time when we were racing the atlanta 500 and he was sick and he needed an operation. I said, daddy, we dont have to rest a day. He whispered to me and said, lived my legs up and put me in the car. He drove 500 miles that day. Nermeen well talk to dave isay about storycorps, his new book, and the recent death of freed death row prisoner maurice bickham. All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im nermeen shaikh. The United States and russia have reached a deal to extend a fragile ceasefire to the embattled syrian city of aleppo. A surge in fighting between rebels and the Syrian Regime has guilt about 300 people over the past two weeks. The city now appears relatively calm. Jeffrey feldman condemned the recent attacks on area hospitals. Ever more shocking reports from the aleppo city in the past two weeks. You have all seen the horrifying images of on hospitals in both government and opposition Held Neighborho
Holland. A snowstorm in the midwest. This is what people in south dakota and many other states are waking up to this morning. Im glad we are not waking up to that this morning. Danielle we arent but areas go. Chicago to in iowa to parts of wisconsin waking up to some heavy snow. Locations. We are on the warmer side of this one as the snow moves north into canada we get showers tomorrow. As for right now a couple of high thin clouds. The big story this morning about the temperature starting in the 20s in keene and orange. 40 now in boston and already 49 degrees on nantucket. Milder down there. Factor in the wind with colder temps to start, it feels more like the 20s through worcester county. 20s through the Merrimack Valley and 34 degrees in boston. Tore for today a mix of sun and clouds. 4651 degrees. Winds out of the north and east shift, to the east through the afternoon. We start out with some sunshine their way system. To western pennsylvania by 9 00. We will time out the rain for
I dont have a cooled high or pocket square, but whatever. Girl power day here on Market Makers. Pfizer has been looking for an acquisition after its failed bid for astrazeneca last year. The biggest provider of adjustable drugs valued at 17 million. Pfizer is paying 39 him him. Premium. Another big company attacked by hackers, the second Largest Health insurer, anthem. Hackers installed at on tens of millions of current and former customers and employees. It they will provide credit and identity threat that the monitoring theft monitoring for prepared short men collected 500 million in dividends last year. Pretty soon, watch out, tom keene. Your tweets will be more searchable online. Google making them searchable s s they are posted. The twitter ceo is trying to get more tweets seen by nonusers. Under armour is building its own Digital Fitness empire. The Sports Apparel giant just bought my fitness pal for a total of 506 2 million. I had a chance to sit down with kevin plank to find ou
Hsbc had a preliminary read. The chinese stocks are looking at the worst arch of year since 2010. In the u. S. , we have Economic Data at 8 30 a. M. With First Quarter gdp and initial jobless claims, 9 45 a. M. , bloomberg beforer comfort, 10 a. M. The bell, we have a slew of earnings. After the bell, it will be google and amazon. Those are two big ones in retail. Are they more optimistic off of what facebook did . And facebook has so much rising power. Lets get to the data check. Cable is out. Revenue was higher than anticipated and they increased their dividend by 15 . A lot of earnings are coming up this morning. There is the data for you. The yield is a big story. The fed meeting and there are the currencies. I am watching the yen and it is better than good. It is weaker. Is at thefor me bottom, a basket of euro and dollars. Chart and its ugly. If you are Vladimir Putin, this is not good as the world comes to sochi. The ruble appreciates and then it has been churning and you see th
A pretty rough session in asia. The nikkei lower today. The ecb outlining their plan for stress tests. By the way, stay tuned for our interview with ecb president mario draghi a little later on. Dell out telling two different stories, caterpillar, cutting the forecast, citing a difficult year. Then theres boeing raising its guidance and upping its production schedule. And our live interview with starbucks chairman and ceo Howard Schultz. The company is looking to expand its empire beyond coffee. Carl icahn selling shares. Well discuss the best time to get out of a stock. Boeing raising its fullyear guidance. On the flip side, caterpillar is falling after posting huge numbers, missed the street by a very wide margin, cutting hits fullyear outlook. Ceo Doug Oberhelman was on squawk box this morning. Ive seen cycles over my 39 years. This one is pretty acute in mining. The rest of the business is hanging in there. Jim, he said its been a tough year, hell be glad to see it go, hes still bu